追随软木橡树足迹的西班牙生态游_时事

追随软木橡树足迹的西班牙生态游

From June to August, three rural regions acrossSpain are transformed into otherworldly landscapes; trees in the heart of the cork forest aresheared of their bark, becoming brick-red sentinels with leafy tops that guard the woods. Andthis year, for the first time, visitors are able to experience the harvest with them.

每年的6月到8月，西班牙的三处乡郊都会改头换面，现出一幅幅异世界般的风景：软木橡树林中央处的树木，被一棵棵剥掉了树皮，化身为一身砖红色的哨兵，头顶着繁茂枝叶，守卫着树林。而在今年，游客们首次有了到当地亲身感受软木橡树收割的机会。

A new eco-tour allows travelers to watch the cork harvest and later follow donkeys carryingtowering loads to one of the traditional pueblos blancos, towns whose buildings are paintedstark white and which dot the countryside in Catalonia, Andalusia and Extremadura.

一项新推出的生态游，让游客能够观赏软木橡树收割的现场，然后尾随着驴子，看着它们将堆得高高的木材驮入具有传统风情的白色村庄(pueblos blanco)——这些村庄里的建筑，全都漆成了朴实无华的白色，星星点点地散布于加泰罗尼亚(Catalonia)、安达卢西亚(Andalusia)和埃斯特雷马杜拉(Extremadura)的乡郊之间。

The tour, From Bark to Bottle, leads participants on an 11-day trip through Spain’s cork trail todiscover the lives of the harvesters, the forest’s biodiversity and the cultural and gastronomicheritage of the area — in essence, the cork’s path from tree to wine. Cork is a renewableresource; every year farmers go to a different part of their land to harvest, only returning tothe same trees every nine years.